Tottenham Hotspur have gotten into the full swing of the winter transfer window, and while most fans want to see the club aggressively upgrade a squad that is comfortably in the bottom half of the Premier League table - and looks incapable of coming up higher under Thomas Frank at this rate - the name of the game in the early going has been sales.
Spurs have already received two fabled Here We Gos from transfer insider Fabrizio Romano on the first day of the New Year. Manor Solomon has made his way on loan from Villarreal to Fiorentina while on the books at Tottenham, and then Spurs have sealed a permanent sale of between 30 and 35 million pounds for Welsh winger Brennan Johnson.
The money from the Johnson sale is a hefty chunk of change that could help Tottenham sign a better winger on the left side of the formation who can actually help Spurs win some Premier League fixtures in this difficult 2025/26 season.
Tottenham need to keep making money
And now, Fabrizio Romano is reporting that the Manor Solomon move could yield Tottenham Hotspur further transfer earnings. At the time he reported of the new loan to Fiorentina, which was surely pulled by the guiding hand of Fabio Paratici ahead of his switch from Spurs to the Director of Football of the Viola, Fab said that there would be an option to buy in this new loan deal with the Serie A giants. Notably, there was no such option to buy in Solomon's failed loan to the Yellow Submarine in Spain.
Now, Romano states that Solomon will have a medical on Friday to help seal the deal, and he reveals that the option to buy is worth 10 million euros. While that may seem half of what Tottenham fans were hoping based on the rumors when Leeds United were interested in him last year, well, there is a reason why Tottenham struggled to sell him anywhere near that amount in 2025.
Any penny Tottenham can get out of Solomon is a win, because he showed in the Championship and just recently for Villarreal that he does not have the all around quality or dynamism to play meaningful minutes for a hopeful contender like Tottenham. So Spurs had better hope that Solomon scores a few clutch goals for the literal worst team in Italian football and finagles the Paratici connection into that 10 million euro deal.